Association of American Railroads

Through the first 36 weeks of 2023 (ending Sept. 9), total North American carload and intermodal traffic decreased 4.1% from the prior-year period, the Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported…

Los Angeles, Calif.-based Parallel Systems on Sept. 12 introduced its second-generation autonomous battery-electric freight car, which it plans to pilot test on existing U.S. and international rail networks.

The Surface Transportation Board (STB) on Sept. 7 issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that it said focused on “providing rail customers with access to reciprocal switching as a…

Maureen Werner is the new Vice President of Engineering at MxV Rail. She will be responsible for leading more than 100 engineers “in the pursuit of delivering high-quality research, testing…

In a letter to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, the American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association (ASLRRA), along with the Association of American Railroads (AAR) and U.S. Chamber of Commerce,…

“August was the third straight month in which total year-over-year U.S. rail carloads have fallen,” Association of American Railroads (AAR) Senior Vice President John T. Gray reported on Sept. 6.…

Since my retreat to the bucolic Eastern Shore of Maryland, I have had limited interest in commenting railroad industry matters. Association of American Railroads President and CEO Ian Jefferies’ Aug.…

The Association of American Railroads (AAR) supports BNSF’s appeal of the Surface Transportation Board’s (STB) recent preliminary injunction requiring the Class I to this year transport millions of tons of coal…

The Association of American Railroads’ (AAR) Wheels, Axles, Bearings & Lubrication (WABL) Committee has voted to approve PJ Messtechnik GmbH (PJM) for performing strength calculations of wheels according to the…

U.S. rail traffic in Week 34 (ending Aug. 26, 2023) lagged the same week last year—falling 5.2%, according to the Association of American Railroads’ Aug. 30 report. Both carloads and…

The Association of American Railroads (AAR) in an Aug. 24 letter provided a progress report to Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and Federal Railroad Administrator Amit Bose on the Class I…

For the first 33 weeks of 2023 (ending Aug. 19), total U.S. weekly rail traffic dipped 4.9% from the same point last year, according to the Association of American Railroads’…

The Transportation Trades Department of the AFL-CIO has written letters to all six Class I railroads (download below) urging them to join the Federal Railroad Administration’s (FRA) voluntary Confidential Close…

U.S. rail traffic for the week ending Aug. 12, 2023 (Week 32) dipped 4.2% from the same week last year, the Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported Aug. 16.

BNSF has donated an alternative fuel testbed locomotive, most recently operated by the railroad as a hydrogen fuel cell switcher in Southern California, to the Oklahoma Railway Museum (ORM). Built…

For the first 31 weeks of 2023 (ending Aug. 5), total U.S. weekly rail traffic dipped 4.1% from the same point last year, according to the Association of American Railroads’…

The Surface Transportation Board (STB) has determined that the cost of capital for the railroad industry was 10.58% for 2022.

The three highest-volume intermodal weeks of 2023 were the three July weeks not including Independence Day, AAR Senior Vice President John T. Gray reported Aug. 2. Also, while carloads of…

The Railroad Retirement Board’s (RRB) ability to process retirements and sickness benefits for railroad employees and retirees “living in every state and every congressional district” would be “severely” impacted by…

For the first 29 weeks of 2023 (ending July 22), total U.S. weekly rail traffic dipped 4.2% from the same point last year, according to the Association of American Railroads’…